Lawsuits likely for Medicaid expansion path

Controlling board use to spur legal challenges

5:05 AM,
Oct. 17, 2013

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Gov. John Kasich's attempt to expand Medicaid without direct legislative authority, if successful, almost certainly will run into immediate legal challenges.

The governor has asked the state Controlling Board to accept federal money so Medicaid coverage is expanded for up to 366,000 uninsured Ohioans after the Republican-controlled state Legislature did not openly support expansion. But using the board of seven men, which is in charge of making appropriations outside the budget, to make such a sweeping policy change probably will end up in court, according to critics and supporters ...